Why are some American farmers leaving their cornfields unplanted?

EPISODE · Sep 3, 2020 · 17 MIN

Why are some American farmers leaving their cornfields unplanted?

from The Week in Philly from KYW Newsradio · host Audacy

Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, how have agriculture and farming and the essential supply chains we rely on for food held up? John M. Urbanchuk, Assistant Professor and Chairman of the Agribusiness Department at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, PA joins KYW In Depth to talk about how food production was hit by the pandemic, how the recovery process is going, the biggest challenges to the industry right now, and why some farmers opted to leave some of their fields unplanted this year instead of putting down corn or soybeans. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

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